Word: notes
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...from baroque to contemporary, although it concentrated on established composers. The opening piece, Mozart's Symphony No. 34 in C. Major, K 388, went well. It is in three movements, not a major work by any means, but an interesting idea. This work was accompanied by some silly program notes apologizing for it because, the writer says, compared to Beethoven "Mozart emerges as a trivial blank," when judged emotionally. I suppose program note writers have to make a living, just like everyone else...
When Bessie Smith sang the blues, every misery, lust and hostility that had ever racked her fleshy 5-ft. 9-in., 200-lb. frame came out in the music. Her sense of pitch was phenomenal. She could hit a note right in the middle when she wanted to, but she could also shade a vowel with any one of a thousand different flat slurs that seemed always at her disposal. Her message came out with a clear diction few lieder singers could match. She shaped a song as though its architecture were sonata form, not repetitious twelve-bar patterns...
...limp is often treated as the separate offense of resisting arrest. Third parties may be charged with interference for as little as standing in the way. Since an arrested witness is almost no use at all, lawyers suggest that observers who think police are unfair should keep quiet and note facts like the officer's badge number. Demonstrators may be searched-before arrest as well as after-if the police have good reason to suspect that they are carrying concealed weapons. Legal protests must remain peaceful, but in legally questionable situations the N.Y.C.L.U. pragmatically advises demonstrators: "If the police...
Though many believe that age accentuates personality characteristics, Dr. Butler notes that "certain personality features mellow or entirely disappear. Others prove insulating and protective, although they might formerly have been impairing, such as a schizoid disposition." Some doctors suggest that neuroses and some psychoses burn themselves out with age, and note that the rate of mental disorders declines after...
Another distressing note is a persistent background wail that is apparently music supposed to heighten the film's dramatic impact. Instead, the sound evokes visions of some poor soul being tortured in the Tower of London by Vincent Price. The film's ultimate effect, as Mishkin would say, is enough to drive an audience meshugge...